"I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them."

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Source : Carl Barks, Donald D. Ault (2003). “Carl Barks: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Carl Barks

#Stories Quotes #Hell Quotes #Cynicism Quotes

“My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.”
“Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.”
“While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.”
“You can fix it as soon as you get up - you brush and use mouthwash - but thereâ€™s something about knowing you woke up with hot-mothball mouth that makes you feel old. I think God designed our mouths to die first to help us slowly transition to the grave.”
“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,
“Never ran away for the sake of scars.”
“The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.”
“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”

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